Abstract Manager

Emergency Vehicle Pre-emption (EVP) is a traffic signal control strategy used by local transportation and emergency response agencies to improve response time to incidents for fire, police and other emergency responders.  The premise behind EVP is to facilitate emergency response by providing response vehicles with a green traffic signal indication as they approach an intersection.  By changing the signal operations to provide a green indication, vehicles that are stopped at the intersection can be cleared before the emergency vehicle reaches the intersection, and the emergency vehicle can have a safer passage through the intersection.

The City of San Jose, California and the City of Montreal have implemented new, cutting edge strategies that disrupt the traditional emergency vehicle pre-emption technologies that are in use by expanding the capability of their Central Traffic Management System, CAD/AVL system and communication network to manage emergency vehicle pre-emption operations - and eliminating the need for additional hardware in the field - called Centralized Emergency Vehicle Preemption.

By leveraging systems that are already in place the Cities are able to have greater control over pre-emption operations, rapidly deploy the solution and realize significant cost savings while improving the safety of their citizens.